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Oh, oops, forgot to add the cover 🙈
A book cover for the audiobook of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa. It shows an illustration of the front of a Japanese bookshop, with lots of books on shelves outside, some of them with notes hanging in front of them. There are also plants and a sleeping cat. Behind the illuminated, partially see-through doors, there are the silhouettes of a man and a woman.
September 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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✨️"Piranesi" by Susanna Clarke✨️

I went into this fully expecting to love it as much as everyone recommending it did, but unfortunately, it fell completely flat for me. The mystery was interesting, but sadly I was very bored most of the time. 🥹 This one just wasn't for me.

#booksky #piranesi
A book cover for Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. It shows the statue of a faun playing an instrument above a roiling sea.
August 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Btw, my 🍂Fall TBR🍂 is out 👻

#booksky #booktok #falltbr

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A GIF of a female-presenting caucasian person in a One Piece t-shirt in front of a bookshelf, waving at the camera while saying, "Hi, and welcome to my Fall TBR"
August 29, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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✨️"Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins✨️

And thus ends my re-read of all the Hunger Games books. Amazing as always, and it squeezed several tears out of me in the end once again. 🥹

#booksky #mockingjay
A book cover for Mockingjay by New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Collins. It shows a mockingjay bird on a blue background, destrying the confines of the circular patterns.
August 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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✨️"Make the Season Bright" by Ashley Herring Blake✨️

I know it's not the right season yet, but I saw it at the library and thought it looked cute, so I checked it out anyway. 👻 It was fun, I enjoyed it, but the way the two talked during sex took me out of the story. 😅

#booksky #maketheseasonbright
A book cover for Make the Season Bright by USA Today Bestselling author Ashley Herring Blake. It shows two young white women, one in a red flannel-patterned coat with long brown hair and bangs, the other in all-black with long salt-and-pepper hair and a violin case in her hand, who eye each other with smug facial expressions. In the green background is a festive street with streetlamps and Christmas decorations.
August 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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✨️"Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir✨️

When I heard the trailer for the movie is out and spoils some things I was like "TIME TO FINALLY READ THE BOOK" and omg, Ryland and Rocky are everything to me, their interactions, their relationship, I love them so much. 😭👌🏻💖💯

#booktok #projecthailmary
A book cover for Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It shows an illustration an astronaut floating in space connected to a tether that ends somewhere out of frame. Behind him is the halfway-lit surface of a yellow planet.
August 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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✨️"The Lamplighters" by Emma Stonex✨️

Nice moody atmosphere, a good mystery, and an interesting plot structure. I liked the jump between the past and the present and how gradually the mystery was unraveled through that. I enjoyed it.

#booksky #thelamplighters
A book cover for The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex. It's creatively illustrated in vibrant shades of red, blue, yellow and black and shows a lit lighthouse in the middle of a churning sea. A blurb by S.J. Watson says, "A mystery, a love story and a ghost story, all at once. Wonderful."
August 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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✨️"The Only Good Indians" by Stephen Graham Jones✨️

I enjoyed how real the characters felt and how authentic their relationships came across. The book built good tension but sometimes dragged it out a bit too much for my personal taste, broke the suspense sometimes.

#booksky #theonlygoodindians
A book cover for The Only Good Indians by Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Bradbury and Alex Awards winner Stephen Graham Jones. Part of an elk's head with its antlers can be seen on a black background. A blurb by Stephen King says, "Thrilling, literate, scary, immersive."
August 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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✨️"Holes" by Louis Sachar✨️

Finished the book today and rewatched the movie and people are right, the movie is an almost spot-on adaptation. 💯 I really liked the friendship between Stanley and Zero, and the interwoven generational history, I had a good time. 👻

#booksky #holesbook
A book cover for Holes by Louis Sachar. It shows an empty desert where there used to be a lake, with dry cracks in the ground and the hot sun beating down on the scene, washing out the colors. A second, smaller image sits on top of the cover on the left and shows a shovel lying on yellow desert ground in the sun with a dry bush behind it.
August 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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✨️"Thornhedge" by T. Kingfisher✨️

I finally read my first T. Kingfisher book and I really enjoyed it. 🥳
Toadling was so endearing and Halim was so sweet and I completely get what T. Kingfisher means when she says this is a sweet story. It really is. 💖

#booksky #thornhedge
A book cover for Thornhedge by Hugo and Nebula award-winning author T Kingfisher. It shows an illustration of a medieval tower in the middle of a floral symmetric design. The caption says, "There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story." New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik, says in her blurb, "I opened, I devoured. Absolutely delightful and full of charm and truth."
August 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Went to the library yesterday and got my first library card in like 25 years, and of course I checked out a few books. 👻

#booksky #libraryhaul
A short stack of four books that have been checked out from the library. From bottom to top, the books are The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex, The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, Holes by Louis Sachar, and Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher.
August 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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✨️"Hell House" by Richard Matheson✨️

Great tension, spooky, kept me engaged til the very last page. The characters are interesting, though the women are very written-by-a-man. Some language that wouldn't fly today, do check content warnings. A good haunted house novel.

#booksky #hellhouse
A book cover for Hell House by Richard Matheson. The words Hell House are in red on a black background, and the bottom of the word House is dissolving downward into the illustration of the house below, almost like blood running down a wall. A blurb by Stephen King says, "Hell House is the scariest haunted house novel ever written".
July 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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✨️"A Study in Drowning" by Ava Reid✨️

Impeccable vibes, interesting characters and a suspenseful mystery that is perfect for an overcast summer by the sea (I'm not by the sea, but it gave me the feeling I was, very atmospheric). Ava Reid is a new auto-buy author for me.

#booksky #astudyindrowning
A book cover for A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid. It's illustrated in a minimalistic style that focuses on its ocean colors and gold. It features a mansion atop of a cliff above the ocean from which books and ripped-out pages fall into the waves. The book is a Sunday Times bestseller. A blurb by Sasha Peyton Smith says, "One of those books that makes you remember why we read in the first place." A blurb by Melissa Albert says, "As merciless as a rising tide and as beguiling as a fairy's bargain."
July 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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✨️"How to Solve Your Own Murder" by Kristen Perrin✨️

A fun murder mystery in a seaside town in England. I enjoyed it. The author's acknowledgments mentioned there will be a film or TV adaptation, which I look forward to.

#booksky #howtosolveyourownmurder
A book cover for How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin. The cover is red and aside from the large text of the title, there is a human skull with a raven perched onto it, flapping its wings. A caption says "Frances always said she'd be murdered. She was right". Three blurbs by The Daily Mail, Jennie Godfrey and The Guardian respectively call the book "delightfully refreshing", "very funny" and "plenty of twists".
July 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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✨️"Don't Let the Forest In" by C.G. Drews✨️

It might be because I just came from a book with a similar third-act reveal, but I clocked that reveal in chapter 1. Still, I really enjoyed the book and the two main characters, although some things were a bit too convenient.

#booksky #dontlettheforestin
A book cover for Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews. It features a portrait illustration of a blond caucasian boy in a school uniform with splotches of blood on his collar and what looks like claw marks ripping across his face so that we can't properly see it. Out of the tears, vines and flowers and insects grow, like there's a forest directly behind the canvas.
July 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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✨️"We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart✨️

After I finished watching the show, I was in the mood to re-read the book, so I unearthed my 10 year old ebook copy on my e-reader and did that, and I gotta say, I enjoyed it much more than the first time. The show is very good, too.

#booksky #wewereliars
A book cover for We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. It shows a group of teenagers swimming in the ocean in the sunshine, their faces obscured. A blurb by John Green, bestselling author of The Fault In Our Stars, calls the book "thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is absolutely unforgettable".
July 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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✨️"The Electric State" by Simon Stålenhag, translated by Martin Dunelind✨️

I read this as an ebook on Everand, but I definitely also want to get a physical copy of this book. I absolutely loved the atmosphere in this and the artwork is absolutely gorgeous.

#booksky #theelectricstate
A book cover for The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag. It shows an illustration of a shaded parking lot in a desert area, where a girl with her back turned to the viewer and a robot with a large round head are looking at the remnants of a huge robot that sits abandoned close to them, most of its mechanical innards laid bare.
July 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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✨️"Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins✨️

Still so good on every re-read, and even more so now with the context from SotR. 🥹💯

#booksky #catchingfire
A book cover for Catching Fire by New York Times Bestselling Author Suzanne Collins, the second book of The Hunger Games. The backdrop is red and features the black mockingjay bird in flight inside a circle similar to a pie graph, connected to two other shapes with concentric circles.
July 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Happy Pride Month! 🌈
Post you and your flags! ✨️
A female-presenting person in summer clothes and a cap posing on their knees and holding up a peace sign next to a small statue of a Gonk droid from the Star Wars universe. A collage of three different pride flags side by side, each of them featuring horizontal stripes in various colors. First is the graysexual pride flag, with a five-striped color pattern that goes from purple to gray to white to gray and then purple again. Second is the bisexual pride flag, with a three-striped color pattern that goes from pink to purple to blue. And lastly is the agender pride flag, with a seven-striped color pattern that goes from black to gray to white to light green to white and then gray and black again.
June 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Just came across this bit in Catching Fire and this hits different now, too, after Sunrise on the Reaping. 🥹

#booksky #catchingfire #thg
A snapshot from an excerpt of the book Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins: "Actually, I painted a picture of Rue," Peeta says. "How she looked after Katniss had covered her in flowers." There's a long pause at the table while everyone absorbs this. "And what exactly were you trying to accomplish?" Haymitch asks in a very measured voice. "I'm not sure. I just wanted to hold them accountable, if only for a moment," says Peeta. "For killing that little girl."
June 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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✨️The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins✨️

This was a re-read for me and a first read for my bestie (she loved it), and it was even better the second time around. The first time I gave it 4⭐️, this time I gave it 4.5⭐️.
I love Lucy Gray. 💖

#booksky #theballadofsongbirdsandsnakes
A book cover for the Hunger Games novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. This is the Barnes&Noble Exclusive Edition which includes a bonus Q&A. The cover features a dark pink background with near-black concentric circles. In the middle is a golden Mockingjay bird sitting on a golden branch that is wrapped in a circle. Also hanging from the branch below the bird is a golden snake.
May 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Kieran Culkin

Okay, this one came as a surprise to me but now that I look at him, it's totally believable that Kieran's face might one day turn into Stanley Tucci's face, so from that alone it seems like a good choice. I haven't seen much with Kieran in it, but he's pretty popular, so we'll see. 👀
A black-and-white photo of a caucasian man with dark hair and a full beard. The caption says "Kieran Culkin is Caesar Flickerman".
May 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Elle Fanning

OMG THEY ACTUALLY DID IT!! Hell yeah, I'm so looking forward to her playing Effie, she's gonna nail this! 💯
A black-and-white photo of a caucasian woman with very light straight hair. The caption says "Elle Fanning is Effie Trinket".
May 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I was very brave at the doctor's office today (they took THREE viles of blood!), so I got myself little treats at the bookstore. 🥹
A photo of a book with two bookmarks on it. The book is The Devils by Joe Abercrombie which features a dark blue background with a skull in the middle that has horns that are burning like candles, and a crown as the lower part of the jaw. The cover is laced with golden elements that look like the skull is emitting them. The first bookmark features a light gray background with clouds at the top and raindrops throughout. In the middle is a heart, pierced by three swords and a variety of colorful flowers. At the bottom are the words Courage Above Fear. The second bookmark shows blue-toned illustrations of a variety of sea shells.
May 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Molly McCann & Iona Bell

I have not seen either of them in anything yet (Iona is also still very new to the game), and I am surprised that they went this route, I really thought they were going to cast actresses of color for these two characters, but I look forward to seeing their performances. 👀
A black-and-white photo of a young caucasian girl with long light wavy hair. The caption says "Molly McCann is Louella McCoy". A black-and-white photo of a young caucasian girl with long medium-dark hair. The caption says "Iona Bell is Lou Lou".
May 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM